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title: Look at the flowers as much as you like, but pick none,’ and the hor… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at the flowers as much as you like, but pick none,’ and the horse walked on slowly. Who acts: you, horse. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 131

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Look at the flowers as much as you like, but pick none,’ and the horse walked on slowly.

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**Who acts:** you, horse · **What happens:** look, like, pick, walk on · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:19:131
# text = Look at the flowers as much as you like, but pick none,’ and the horse walked on slowly.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **pick** | present |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
| 4 | **walk on** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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